Because Britain has been obsessed with the allegation that newly appointed Conservative Party Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell called a policeman guarding the Houses of Parliament a "F**king Pleb" after he refused to allow him to ride his bicycle out of the front gates. As with Oliveria's legs this is one of those stories you can assign just about any meaning you like to. For example because they're not allowed to use the exact words Mitchell used the TV news are talking about him using "Anglo-Saxon phrases" so it could be a reference to the para-Olympic closing ceremony. They'd be wrong though because Pleb is actually a Roman word so proceeds the Angles and the Saxons by about 500 years. The only worrying is that as the former Secretary of State for International Development Mitchell is known internationally and both the new Libyan and old Egyptian constitutions both use the word Pleb because it refers to one of the common people. So Mitchell was actually perfectly accurate in referring to the policeman as a pleb. As for the rest of it you might need to check into the policeman's martial status.
Also police in Pittsburgh USA have spent the day dealing with a hostage situation that has ended peacefully in the last hour because so close to a Presidential election I knew that tattoo story would be a bit of a rock and roller.
19:05 on 21/9/12.
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